Judging this book by it’s cover it appears pretty straightforward: Morrissey is well up for meetings. Look at him, checking his watch by the duck pond in the park to see when the next meeting starts. It's probably a local community meeting. Possibly about saving / concreting said duck pond.
But enough supposition. Morrissey's favourite meeting sort is the AGM. Of course it is - it's the classic.
Some say the rift between Johnny Marr and Morrissey began when at a band meeting Marr proposed a motion during Any Other Business to have bacon rolls during future band meetings and Morrissey (as usual) chairing the meeting took a vote. Counting both his own raised hands in objection, Morrissey declared that the motion was not carried. Marr, knowing Morrissey’s stickler approach to meeting administration [and his own penchant for serving brutal retribution cold] would later refuse to second Morrissey’s proposal of the previous band meeting minutes.
And it was an incident from which - at the risk of sounding like the beginning of a late Saturday night serious pop programme on BBC Radio2 by Stuart Maconie - their relationship was never to recover. [Queue fade-in jangly start to This Charming Man before sharp fade-out when the lyrics kick-in].
With the band members going their separate ways after the Strangeways LP, Morrissey chose to put music to one side, concentrating instead with experimenting with evermore different types of meetings: the job appraisal meeting, the creative thought-shower meeting and, most successfully for Morrissey, the interdepartmental monthly stationery meeting. Marr would go on in later years to be part of many “super-groups” though in reality these would always, confusingly, be inferior to most “groups”.
We won’t know if the bacon role sub-section proposal did occur, unfortunately, from this book as it is only the collected agendas and minutes of all the meetings Morrissey has had from 1989-2004.
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